#friendship

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar. ↗

— Robert Brault

#calendar #cherish #consult #does #finds

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. ↗

— Anita Brookner

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There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. ↗

— Buddha

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Friendship is Love without his wings! ↗

— Lord Byron

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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. ↗

— Lord Byron

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I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself. ↗

— Jane Campion

#considered #england #enthusiasms #felt #friendship

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ↗

— Albert Camus

#behind #beside #follow #friend #front

Write about patriotism, about victory and defeat. Write about revolutions and rebels and prisoners and wars. About emotions, of love and hatred and disappointment and regret. Intangible love and uncolored hatred and heartbreaking disappointments and abysmal regrets. Write about the seven deadly sins, about stealth and murder and gluttony and greed. Don’t forget to write about saints and sinners all the same. Write the poor and the rich using the same words, make them equal for once. Write about mothers who lost their children, about those who never had to lose; I challenge you to tell me which hurts more. Write about darkness and light, about light in the dark and darkness in the light. Remember to write about lost friendships, about those who never found a shoulder when life shut its lights dim, or those who kept the secret to their sadness within. Be fair to them too. Remind the world of those who always had someone to love but not someone to love them back, craft their nights and dreams carefully. Don’t forget the writers, who keep promises with words and silence. Be subtle. Be warm. Remember heartbeats and heartbreaks. Remember everything, remember all, equally. And then let the world remind you: Words will never be fair to whatever you write. ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#dreams #friendship #life #love #writing